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AI Can Make Your Story Better. That’s the Problem.
The uncomfortable finding behind AI creative writing — and what it means for authors competing for readers.
Imagine improving your next story.
The opening lands faster. The sentences flow. Readers enjoy it more.
Then you discover that thousands of other writers are improving their stories in remarkably similar ways.
Your book gets better. The bookshelf gets more repetitive.
That is the uncomfortable possibility raised by research into AI and creative writing. And for writers publishing on Amazon, it leads to a question more useful than “Can AI write a novel?”
When producing readable words becomes easier, what makes yours worth choosing?
The experiment with a catch
In a 2024 study published in Science Advances, researchers Anil Doshi and Oliver Hauser analysed 293 eight-sentence stories, assessed by 600 evaluators.
Writers worked without AI ideas, with access to one AI idea, or with access to up to five.
Compared with the human-only group, access to five ideas increased average novelty ratings by 8.1% and “usefulness” ratings by 9.0%. Here, usefulness combined assessments of appropriateness, feasibility and…
